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Bronsteins-Panzerzug t1_iwgaf39 wrote

Reply to comment by fluency in "Babadook"Leather Bookmark, me by kswades

They suffer from extreme paranoid delusions lol

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fluency t1_iwgapkm wrote

Thats one interpretation. Another, perhaps more powerful one, is to view it as a metaphor.

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Bronsteins-Panzerzug t1_iwgawn1 wrote

…for mental illness

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fluency t1_iwgb7er wrote

No, a metaphor for unprocessed trauma. The ending where she accepts the Babadook, keeps it in the basement and feeds it, the line «you can’t get rid of the Babadook,» all of it presents as a metaphor for the process of working through trauma and grief. In the end, she accepts the darkness of her trauma as a part of herself.

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GoddamnJiveTurkey t1_iwgechw wrote

You can’t get rid of it, but you can learn to tame it. And it’ll flare up, act angry, try to take over your life again, but you learn to put it back in that basement time after time.

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